With great analytic depth, this textbook clearly illuminates the basic principles of descriptive statistics. It accomplishes this aim with lively language and numerous illustrations, overviews, and tables along with practice exercises. Prof. Dr. Johannes Natrop(Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)

Students in both social and natural sciences often seek regression methods to explain the frequency of events, such as visits to a doctor, auto accidents, or new patents awarded. This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of models and methods to interpret such data. The...